PARALLELS: SHOW INSTALLATION
Parallels: through June 22nd, 2019 featuring the work of Francis Di Fronzo and Kristine Poole. The parallels are complex and revealed on multiple levels. Both artists present the opportunity to explore the stories hidden beneath the surface of their subjects.
Francis Di Fronzo's pensive, often ominous paintings are rife with both unseen and deeply felt forces: seemingly paradoxical impulses that are integral to his work. In this exhibition, there are vestiges of the pursuit of dreams such as in The Mystery. Part 2 and The Mystery, Part 3. The rusted remains are monuments to dreams realized or forgotten. The stories are embedded in these deteriorating icons of the American Dream.
Poole’s work explores themes centered on socio-cultural experience, her sensitive sculptural approach to the figure allowing the inner emotional landscape to be revealed through the external forms of the body. Contrasting classically rendered figures with contemporary motifs and surface treatments, she frequently juxtaposes body language, posture and attitude with text, layering the strength of gesture with the power words have convey, create and define reality and experience.
